I was there for both Black Caps games, the Hollies was absolutely rocking, even when it was 99% pakistani & 1% kiwi
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[Cricket] Cricket World Cup Final: ENGLAND v New Zealand *** Official Match Thread ***
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I was there for both Black Caps games, the Hollies was absolutely rocking, even when it was 99% pakistani & 1% kiwi
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Highlights on 4 now if anyone was distracted by a couple of men knocking a ball over a net.
It's beaten the Ryder Cup, miracle of Medinah as the greatest thing in sport I've ever seen.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Absolutely this.
Plenty of valiant losses by English teams over the years.
This one went our way. Enjoy every last second of it
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
Huge moment for the sport in the UK. Edgbaston in 2005 changed the game completely, think Stokes and Archer et al.. might have just saved the game from its own bubble. Thank god for Channel 4, let's get the game back on it.
Huge moment for the sport in the UK. Edgbaston in 2005 changed the game completely, think Stokes and Archer et al.. might have just saved the game from its own bubble. Thank god for Channel 4, let's get the game back on it.
Uh_huh_him
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Could have gone to pieces after the wide and 6.. I fully expected a wide to hand the game to the Kiwis.
kept his nerve..
Legend
Sussex Nomad
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He was in a world cup winning team and he is a Sussex player... legend, stop knit picking.
sjamesb3466
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Get a life mate. We looked like we had thrown it away and I was pissed off. Enjoy the victory.
Milano
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Village and small town teams (which are the lifeblood of this sport) have been losing players and interest, this will hopefully change that. Players like Stokes and Buttler are making the game fun again. Pairs formats and a change in ECB coaching focus will hopefully bring the kids back.
Football actually needs to politely **** off out of the cricket season though please. 10th August, seriously? Ridiculous.
Football actually needs to politely **** off out of the cricket season though please. 10th August, seriously? Ridiculous.
Sussex Nomad
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Was always the first two weeks in August, in fact cricket starting in April has encroached on football. However on a nice warm Sunday when we are being crowned world champions I have no arguments.
ManOfSussex
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I grew up in a little village just outside of Hastings in proper Eastern Sussex/West Kent 'Stoolball Country' - a place that had a village cricket team 300 years old where the game of cricket found its heartlands as a sport and fostered. I'm so happy tonight. 
https://youtu.be/8URI0WM0UC8
Enjoyed watching the match at the cricket club..... [emoji106][emoji967]
Enjoyed watching the match at the cricket club..... [emoji106][emoji967]
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
About four hours ago
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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Not a cricket fan but becoming one. Always had a passing interest in, went to one WC match and watched the final today. If that doesn’t get you into the sport I don’t know what will. I’m increasingly drawn to it and will get along to the twenty twenty Surrey v GOSBTS at the Oval next month. Footballs lost so much in recent decades, maybe cricket can replace some of that for old as well as new generations.
Sussex Nomad
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Just one question if someone can answer, why was Jason Roy not out LBW first ball? I'm still not quite sure.
Well said. I was quite late to cricket as a fan but I love it more than any sport now. And I REALLY love football.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I think they said on the commentary that on the computer generated ball trajectory prediction that 50+% of the ball has to connect with 50+% of the width of the stump.
It looked like about 48% of the ball.
Wasn't given? [emoji23]
Milano
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It’s a great sport, polar opposite to football (I’m not knocking football as it’s my main passion) in that the ‘spirit of cricket’ is actually in the rules. Kids should play both, cricket teaches fair play and team work above everything else.